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McKinley’s Ghost & the Little Tin Truck: Volume 127
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Artikel-Nr:
9781771831383
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.08.2016
Seiten:
500
Autor:
Anthony M. Graziano
Gewicht:
726 g
Format:
226x150x33 mm
Serie:
127, Essential Prose
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book tells the story of the Millers, a fictional family struggling among the real events of the early 20th century: the end of the Progressive Era, The Great War and influenza pandemic, prohibition, voting rights for women, the conservative take-over, the Red Scare, xenophobic hatred of immigrants and other inferiors, lynching and race riots, union-busting, the elevation of business in government and the resulting unparalleled corruption, a wild stock market, spiralling income disparity, the Great Depression, national despair and the seeds of the next world war.